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Halfway into the racing season, the Harvard varsity heavyweights seem to have hit their stride. Following an exciting 0.5-second win over Princeton last weekend, the varsity eight claimed open water victories over both Navy and Penn to retain the Adams Cup for the ninth consecutive year. The Crimson finished the turn-laden course over three seconds before Navy and almost 15 seconds ahead of Penn. “For us, it’s good to have another win under our belts,” captain six-seat Joe Medioli said. “Given last weekend against Princeton...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Continues Mid-Season Success | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...while Docx’s talent for character creation is impressive, it can sometimes lead him toward caricature. It is as if Docx, justly reliant on his tremendous skill for description, occasionally lets himself become a little lazy in crafting the characters he describes, some of whom retain the strange, menacing darkness that would fit better in a Dan Brown novel. Selfish, conniving, and sometimes senselessly cruel, these characters seem inappropriately one-sided alongside the other rich characters who populate the novel. Still, what would be cardboard cut-outs in another author’s hands seem almost real...

Author: By Sasha F. Klein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Pravda’ Brings St. Petersburg, Menacing and Marvelous, To Life | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...cost of access to scholarly work might be through the type of free-access program that Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passed in February, which places a professor’s work online for free, unless the professor chooses to opt out. The professors retain the copyright and anyone, Harvard affiliated or not, has free access. This repository program bypasses the copyright expenses and royalties that journals collect. Journals are not all costs however, and one negative of avoiding scholarly journals is the loss of the peer-review process. Yet programs like this...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Steal This Article? | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...against the visiting Tigers. The two programs have won the last seven consecutive Eastern Sprints championships, with Harvard earning five gold medals and Princeton claiming two. The Tigers bested Harvard at the San Diego Crew Classic two weeks ago, but the Crimson’s Saturday sweep helped Harvard retain the Compton Cup for the second straight year and the sixth time in seven seasons.“It has been a hard week because coming off of last weekend’s loss [to Brown], I think a lot of guys were a bit demoralized and a bit frantic...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Surge Keeps Compton Cup in Cambridge | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

...work permit. “I’m sure all of the international science concentrators here will like this change,” Ilic said. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ’75 said in a press release that this rule will enable businesses to attract and retain highly skilled foreign workers, giving U.S. companies a competitive advantage in the world economy. “I am sure several U.S. firms in the high-tech sectors have very much welcomed this policy,” said Economics professor Pol Antràs. Cambridge City Councillor Sam Seidel said...

Author: By Jihae Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Extends Some Visas | 4/13/2008 | See Source »

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